Oscar-winning Australian director Adam Elliot ‘s stop-motion image Memoir of a Snail has received the highest Cristal prize for greatest function on the Annecy Worldwide Animation Movie Pageant.
The film gathers a starry solid led by Succession star Sarah Snook, who lends her voice to protagonist Grace Puddle, a younger girl with a tough life story who finds consolation within the hoarding of snail memorabilia.
Memoir of a Snail is Elliot’s second function after 2009 animation Mary and Max, and Oscar-winning 2004 quick Harvey Krumpet.
In different prizes in the principle Competitors, Japanese director Shinnosuke Yakuwa’s Totto-Chan: The Little Woman on the Window received the Paul Grimault Award and Latvian filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis’ Circulation was feted with the Jury Award.
Within the Contrechamp competitors, geared toward options pushing the boundaries of animation story-telliing, the Contrechamp Grand Prix went to Spanish filmmaker Isabel Herguera’s feminist drama Sultana’s Dream, and Czech director Kristina Dufková received the Contrechamp Jury Award for Residing Giant, about younger boy bullied over his weight who decides to show his life round.